XJTV-3

XJTV-3 is a Kazakh language channel in Xinjiang autonomous region of China.

XJTV-3 broadcasts in the Kazakh language to the Kazakh population who are Muslim nomadic pastoralists that live mainy in the north of Xinjiang.

XJTV stands for Xinjiang Television, XJTV broadcast three separate channels, they are:

• XJTV-1: A Mandarin language channel for the regions Mandarin speaking population.
  
  
• XJTV-2: A Uygur language channel for the regions Uygur speaking population.
  
  
• XJTV-3: A Kazakh language channel for the regions Kazakh speaking population.
  

Television Broadcasts began in Xinjiang in the 1970s with relays of CCTV then in the late 1980's Xinjiang Television began broadcasting, programming was split between the three languages seen above.

On August 28^th 1997 digital satellite broadcasts began and the there languages were given dedicated channels.

The Video

First of we see a very busy test card with XJTV identification and 625 lines for terrestrial transmission and 50hz and clock leading into the 6am hour.

Although SECAM broadcasts of XJTV-3 do not exist on satellite its just DVB-S satellite using 576 lines.

Then at the 6am hour straight into the start up video showing the country side and the cites and the local peoples.

Then into a what's onto today slides.

Then finally the new broadcast day starts with the previous nights English language news about the region with a very Americanised opening video and theme, this news is broadcast on all there XJTV channels.

Thanks to the SatDirectory for this video, I would of not been able to blog about this channel otherwise.

Hope you all enjoy.

BBC Archive Test Cards and Ceefax

The BBC Archive website has a series of interviews with Edwin Parsons who is a BBC preservation expert about Test Cards and Ceefax that were used after close down in the past on BBC One and Two.

The videos can be viewed by clicking Test Card G to the right or here.

They are interesting, yet very brief videos, but that are very much worth a look.

I know its a brake from the norm, but it is a Sunday and I thought they would be of interest to the viewers of this blog.

Something different isn't it and a new post will be of course uploaded Wednesday.

Cheers and enjoy.

BBC Two Close Down January 1998

This is the BBC Two Close Down from the end of the broadcast day of Friday 2^nd of January 1998 in the early hours of Saturday 3^rd of January 1998.

BBC Two still continues to Close Down in 2008 but without much note and straight into Pages from Ceefax on Weekends for an hour or so.

By this point BBC One had ceased closing down at all at night, instead airing the then only two months old BBC News 24 which is now the BBC News Channel during it's down time.

There is not really much to be said about this video it it all pretty obvious and self explanatory. Although it does feature the BBC Two Clock of the period, and the then new BBC Two 'Bug Zapper' ident at the end.

Thanks to Billy Hicks for the use of this video.

I hope you enjoy...

RTK 1 New National Anthem

RTK 1 is the public broadcaster in Kosovo, broadcasting in the majority spoken Albanian but also in the minority languages of Serbian, Bosnian, Turkish and Roma.

RTK 1 broadcasts on UHF Channel 23 in Kosovo's capital Pristina and has other transmitters around the country.

RTK stands for Radio Televizioni i Kosovës or in English Radio Television of Kosovo.

This video is broadcast just before the new broadcast day at 7am with RTK 1 breakfast show

The new National Anthem of Kosovo was only adopted on 11^th of June 2008 after a competition was held for an anthem that no ethnic group would be discriminated by and it was totally secular, the winner composition was written by Mendi Mengjiqi and this is what is heard in this video.

The Flag of Kosovo was adopted on 17^th of February 2008 after a international competition on similar lines of the National Anthem.

I previously uploaded the video they played at the start of their new broadcast day not long after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, this can be viewed Here.

I hope you all enjoy..

Al Maghrébya

Al Maghrébya is a television channel from Morocco's public broadcast SNRT.

SNRT stands for Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision or in English
National Society of Broadcasting and Television.

Al Maghrébya Channel 5 is a satellite channel aimed at European viewers on the Hot Bird 7A satellite at 13°E.

Al Maghrébya broadcasts the best of SNRT's Channel 1 Al Aoula and 2M TV, and was modelled on the international Francophone channel TV5MONDE.

Al Maghrébya continues to close down each evening, with this video.

It seems all SNRT's channels that close down share this video except for the idents, and I guess the SNRT's channels that do not close down air it close to 6am local time.

Not really much to explain really, a 3D Flag of Morocco blowing in the wind with the National Anthem playing, with shots of the nation, its people and industry.

Video then cuts to a shot of King Mohammed VI sitting in a chair with the real flag flying to the left.

After the national anthem video, a really neat 3D ident for Al Maghrébya in Arabic and into their modified PM5544 test card for the night with Al Maghrébya in Arabic at the top and ALMAGHRIBIA in English at the bottom.

Hope you all enjoy.

Syria Satellite Channel

Syria Satellite Channel is an international satellite broadcast based in Syria.

Broadcasting from Damascus on a variety of satellites that are targeted at various regions, this allows them to be easily watched in many nations of the world.

Syria Satellite Channel broadcasts mainly news in Arabic and reruns of old Syrian soap operas.

Syria Satellite Channel does not close down at night since its an international channel but still airs the National Anthem each morning Syrian time.

Not much to say about this video other than it begins with an ident for Syria Satellite Channel and then a video with the National Anthem with lyrics and a computer generated Flag of Syria waving throughout.

Hope you all enjoy.

Channel One Russia Europe

Channel One Russia Europe is a free to air satellite channel broadcasting to Europe using programming from Channel One.

Channel One is 51% controlled by the state of the Russia, and has a long history of broadcasting, it traces its history back to Soviet days as Soviet Channel One and still airs a few shows that originate from the Soviet days including the news which is still very popular.

Channel One is the most prosperous channel in Russia and has the highest budget for television production.

Channel One produces many time zone broadcasts delayed for broadcast internally in Russia and also time delayed broadcasts for the rest of the world.

The Video

Now onto the video, with various shots of Moscow's Red Square and Grand Kremlin Palace which is the Presidents ceremonial residence in Moscow with the Flag of Russia flying above it and the National Anthem playing through out.

The National Anthem of Russia which is basically now the old Soviet Anthems tune with new words, Russia adopted a new one after the fall of the Soviet Union, but it was not well liked, so in 2000 former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin brought it back with new words.

Then into a clock ticking into the 8am hour Moscow time, broadcasters of he former USSR love clocks even cable channels have them in Russia.

This is a much better video than what is aired by Russia TV which originated as Soviet Channel Two which just airs the flag and national anthem.

I hope you all enjoy.

Lao National TV

Lao National TV or LNTV is the national state operated broadcaster of Laos.

LNTV operates two channels Channel 1 and Channel 3 from the capital Vientiane.

Channel 1 broadcasts on VHF Channel 9 in Vientiane and Channel 3 broadcasts on VHF Channel 3 in Vientiane.

Channel 1 focuses on the news, development of the country, educational shows and the economy.

Channel 3 focuses on sports, entertainment shows and also the news.

The Video

The video starts with a simple test card and some great music, then a Map of Laos appears then a shot of LNTV's logo with some music.

Female in-vision announcer who gives a message of I guess what's on today, with the LNTV logo and I guess the broadcast tower of LNTV in Vientiane.

Then into a new broadcast day, the hosts looks very sporty, I wonder what the show could be?

Ah its aerobics.

Thanks to the SatDirectory for this video once again.

Hope you all enjoy.

HLAM-TV Mokpo MBC

HLAM-TV is the MBC television station for the city of Mokpo in South Korea and broadcasts VHF Channel 7.

I believe the signal can be received on the island of Jeju-do due the islands close proximity to Mokpo.

HLAM-TV broadcasts a full schedule of MBC provided shows and also many locally produced shows including local news broadcasts.

HLAM-TV started broadcasting on May 29^th 1984.

The Video

First of we see a really great ident for the MBC network, then a video that I guess explains the purpose of Mokpo MBC.

Then into the National Anthem video, I will let this video speak for itself except I think it starts with a panning shot of Heaven Lake in most northern region of the Korean Peninsula, the lake is also at the start of KCTV start up that was featured last week on this blog.

The National Anthem of South Korea is played through-out and the Flag of the South Korea is also featured.

Call Sign Information

Broadcasting in South Korea aimed for public consumption are all assigned call signs, all call signs begin with HL and then two letters which I guess are chosen by the broadcaster and the broadcast medium, for example HLDG-AM for AM radio on MW.

FM and AM/MW radio stations are required to announce their call signs on air but I am unsure about television.

Maybe there was a requirement for television at one time but I am unsure about now.

It seem television call signs are grandfathered from earlier AM or FM radio stations the broadcaster had ran before the launch of their television service, this is similar to North America.

I hope you all enjoy....

KYW-TV Channel 3 Sign-Off 1956

I thought I would try something a little different today and write this article as if I was currently in 1956..

Thanks to The Internet Archive for this audio clip which is in public domain and Cleveland Classic Media for the logo.

Station Info

KYW-TV is a broadcast television station that covers the Cleveland Ohio market on Channel 3.

KYW-TV is owned by The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company and airs a wide variety of shows and is an affiliate of the NBC Television Network.

The History

KYW-TV originally signed on as WNBK on Channel 4 on October 31^st 1948, and was an owned and operated station of the NBC Television Network.

In 1953 WNBK moved to Channel 3 to limit interference from other stations on Channel 4.

This year as a result of the NBC network wanting a station in Philadelphia they arranged a trade with The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company for WPTZ-TV Channel 3 in Philadelphia which is now WRCV-TV for the NBC's station in Cleveland WNBK also on Channel 3 and their radio stations were also traded.

Westinghouse did not want to lose the call sign KYW which is an historic call sign dating back to 1921 so simply renamed the new stations they had acquired in Cleveland to KYW-AM/FM and TV.

The exchange was complete on February 13^th 1956 at 11:45am.

The Sign-Off

First off we hear a nice little jingle for KYW-TV, then a sign-off message by staff announcer Gordon Ward explaining who owns KYW-TV and the groups they are apart off and when KYW-TV will return to air.

Hope you all enjoy....